Increase the Security of Your LastPass Account with Two New Options

At LastPass, we’re always thinking of ways to better protect users and offer security options that allow users more fine-grained control over the protection of their stored data. That’s why we’ve added two new security options now available to LastPass users in the account settings dialog, which can be opened from the LastPass vault: the ability to restrict logins to selected countries and to disable access from TOR.

Restrict Login to Select Countries

This option is pretty straightforward – you can check one or more countries from which you wish to allow access to your LastPass account. When selected, you can only login to your account from an IP address that originates from the countries you permitted.

The setting is not checked by default, but we do recommend using it as another layer of protection. You can later adjust it if you’ll be traveling and need to access LastPass abroad.

Disallow Logins from TOR

If you’re not familiar with TOR, it was originally developed for protecting US government communications but is now used for a variety of purposes, by normal people, the military, activists, and others for secure, anonymous use of the web.

Because TOR has been associated with hackers who employ it to stay anonymous, and since the majority of LastPass users don’t have a reason to use TOR, you can now disallow logins from TOR. We recommend checking this option if you never use TOR. The setting is not selected by default, but if you haven’t logged in to LastPass via TOR over the last 30 days, you’ll see the option will then be checked in the settings dialog.

Enabling and Disabling the New Settings

All LastPass users will now see the new security options in the settings dialog, accessible from the LastPass vault when you’re logged in.

If you’re in a pinch and need to disable either setting, you will see an error message when logging in that points you to a URL where you can follow the steps to disable the setting(s) by using email. Remember, if you’ve enabled a security email address for your LastPass account, the disable emails will be sent there instead of your account email address.

Multifactor Authentication Is Still Highly Recommended for Added Security

Using multifactor authentication with your LastPass account? You’re already well-protected from potential threats that these settings are meant to protect you from, but it’s worth enabling the settings for the added protection.

If you’re not using multifactor authentication, we highly recommend looking into the available options. There are both free and Premium multifactor authentication options that help you better protect your stored data by requiring that a second piece of data be submitted when logging in to your account.

We continue to look for ways to better protect LastPass users. As always, your security and privacy are our number one priorities.

Just got re-interested with all things security after the recent NSA news but also after reading articles on the ease of hacking most passwords and even phrases. I went back into LP (I’ve been a premium member for a couple years) and am amazed at how much I have not taken advantage of within this application. I am systematically going through my many accounts and correcting the deficiencies now, thanks to the Security Check info.

LastPass is an absolute screaming bargain in security, IMHO. I am floored by how much protection is available at $1 a month…if we take the time to learn it and implement it.

This is a great feature. What would make it even better is if you could create events so that LastPass would automatically set the country on certain dates. This would then enable users to specify when and where they are going on holiday, and then they wouldn’t have to worry about this feature.

A feature like this is found on my banks website, and it would be very useful on your site too!

No, you will see an error dialog with a prompt to disable the feature, and you must then follow the verification steps sent to your account email address (or security email address) to unlock your account.

That is not the behaviour I would have expected!.EU is a separate top level domain (TLD) separate from the TLDs of individual countries within the EU. I do not know whether it has its own block of IP addresses, but (if so) I would expect checking (ticking) “European Union” to permit access from IP addresses on the .EU domain, but NOT permit access from IP addresses allocated to individual EU countries, e.g. UK, FR, DE, NL, BE, etc..

I would appreciate your comments on that point.

P.S. I don’t understand the purpose or effect of the ‘Reply as:’ drop-down options immediately below this text extry field. I know what, say, a ‘Google Account’ or ‘OpenID’ is, but I don’t understand what is the reason or effect of choosing one here. For that reason, I’m choosing ‘Anonymous’.

Kudos LastPass team!Keep this greatness and you will remain the ONLY secure solution out there forever!

Your solutions are always well thought. You know that a restriction like this could lock-out someone traveling to an unselected country and in need to access LastPass. The override solution rocks without lessening security!

I’ve noticed an issue with Multi Factor Authentication using Google Authenticator. I give my Username / Password, if successful I then input my code. I only have to input my code if username / password is successful. Which means any hacker would now know that is correct. I think that all 3 should have to be entered at the same time (and if you don’t have it set up don’t enter it).

it’s possible that wouldn’t work with all multifactor options, in theory simply requiring that the multifactor method be sent before attempting to validate the password would also work. This way it is impossible to tell if the multifactor failed or the password.

Ya, you’re right. Make an extra security option sound stupid. More security options the better if you ask me. YES, it’s easy to circumvent, but it might be that little annoying feature that will make a “hacker” skip of yours & onto someone else’s.

Also, for a scenario like this where it’s temporary due to a vacation, it’d be nice to have a way to set certain countries to expire on a specific date. Not a deal breaker, but a little more user friendly.

We don’t have anything against TOR per se — but it is frequently used by hackers to avoid detection (and look like they’re coming from another country) — so when we added country support allowing you the option to block TOR makes sense

No. If you’re using multifactor auth, one of the only few ways to recover your acct is using one-time passwords (which you can download by logging in at any time), using your password hint, or delete your acct and start over. Lastpass WON’T email your PW to your email address.

Real positive Jon & David. LastPass beefs up security, and the two of you complain about it. You actually contradict each other. Jon says it is a useless feature, and David says it’s overkill, which implies that it is extremely effective.

I’ll bet neither of you actually pay for LastPass, eh?

Thank you LastPass engineers–the majority of us appreciate the new features.

I guess these replies are made by US citizens without a passport. From where I live it takes me 20 min’s to get into Belgium and 1 hour to get into Germany. Last summer holiday brought me in 12 countries, one of them being Romania, famous for the number of hackers that live there.Thanks LastPass for this much needed feature.Don’t get distracted by people that think the world ends beyond the borders of the USA.

The country-restricted login is good!I like that idea. Of course I imagine a proxy would overcome that, right? I mean, that’s how I am watching the Olympic games via the BBC website – by proxying into England with a paid VPN.

On the reporting rather than control front – is there a way to see a list of logins? Not just computers, but something like:

Of course it’s just another layer, not every cracker is sophisticated. I have very, very, rarely left the states in my life. It makes me feel slightly more secure to know that russian hackers not trying very hard have no chance. I personally was hoping to be able to restrict logins to my ISP’s network, or my region within the US. Which would help defeat proxies by the fact that many of them within another region. Which would almost certainly mean that at that point it would have to be a targeted attack against me (or an untargeted, not login based attack against lastpass )

LASS PASS IS NOT THE NEXT BEST THING TO WHITE BREAD BUT IS THE BEST. ONE ITEM I HAVE A SLIGHT PROBLEM ON IS WHERE THE ID IS ON ONE PAGE AND THE PASSWORD IS ON THE SECOND PAGE. CAN GET THE FIRST PAGE BUT NOT THE PASSWORD ON SECOND PAGE…/????

my ay around this is to right click the blank username box and goto Lastpass/autofill and it has my bank website there, click it and it populates the username, then next page lastpass auto populates the password.

I imagine by now you have at least heard of TOR network aka the onion. And I must say I am a new user to the dark web and you have to create so many anonamous accounts to initially get things implemented. I am very pleased that when I just googled lastpass for tor and found out it will work. Lastpass rocks

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